Recently, the World Economic Forum (WEF) announced the list of new global "lighthouse factories" in 2026, and Haichen Energy Storage Chongqing Base was successfully selected. It has become the world's first "lighthouse factory" for energy storage batteries . The base is also the world's first 1000-ampere-hour battery production plant for long-term energy storage. Its systematic breakthroughs and practices in intelligent manufacturing and digital transformation have set a new model for high-quality development of the global energy storage industry.
The world's first energy storage battery "Lighthouse Factory"
and "Lighthouse Factory" were jointly selected by the World Economic Forum and McKinsey Consulting Company in 2018, aiming to select intelligent manufacturing benchmarks with leading demonstration significance in the fourth industrial revolution from a global perspective. The selection focuses on productivity, sustainable development and other dimensions, representing the highest level of global industrial digitalization and intellectualization. Up to now, there are 224 lighthouse factories in the world, and no factory has been selected in the field of energy storage batteries before. As one of the 23 newly selected bases in the world, the evaluation of Haichen Energy Storage Chongqing Base fills this gap, marking that China's energy storage batteries have entered the world's leading ranks in intelligent manufacturing and digital upgrading. It also echoes the new trend of global industrial transformation to intellectualization and sustainability. "Today, competitiveness is no longer defined solely by efficiency, but by the ability to sense, adapt and respond quickly," said Kiva Allgood, executive director of the
World Economic Forum. "This year's example of industrial transformation shows how to scale up intelligence-oriented operations. Thus putting resilience and sustainability at the heart of the industry's operations. The practice of Haichen Energy Storage Chongqing Base is the vivid embodiment of this concept of industrial transformation.
At present, lithium battery energy storage has become the key support to improve green power consumption and enhance the stability of power grid. At the same time of rapid development, the industry is also facing three major challenges: the high compound annual growth rate of market demand, the downward pressure of product prices, and the increasing requirements for the consistency of battery quality, while the traditional manufacturing mode has been difficult to meet the development needs of the industry.
To this end, Haichen Energy Storage Chongqing Base comprehensively promotes digital and intelligent upgrading, and continuously explores lean production and extreme manufacturing from the three dimensions of near-zero defect manufacturing, systematic cost reduction and efficiency enhancement, and whole process intelligent operation . The rate of high-quality products, production capacity and comprehensive efficiency of equipment have been greatly improved.
Chongqing Base Intelligent Manufacturing Production Line
In the practice of "Haichen Intelligent Manufacturing", Chongqing Base can be called a "thinking" factory. The base deploys more than 40 digital solutions, deeply integrates cutting-edge technologies such as generative artificial intelligence, machine learning and artificial intelligence Internet of Things (AIoT), deploys a number of innovative technology applications, and constructs a full-chain intelligent management and control system covering R & D, material selection, production and manufacturing to finished product testing, so as to make the base more intelligent. Build the foundation of high safety, high reliability and high performance of energy storage batteries with extreme consistency. On the basis of the continuous maturity of the overall intelligent manufacturing system of
Chongqing Base, Haichen Energy Storage efficiently promotes the forward-looking production line layout for long-term energy storage scenarios, and constantly innovates and expands the adaptation boundaries of intelligent manufacturing capabilities in different technical routes and application scenarios.
∞ Cell 1175Ah production line
base has built the world's first special battery production line for long-term energy storage. In June 2025, the ∞ Cell 1175Ah long-term energy storage battery rolled off the production line in mass production; in October, the ∞ Power 6.25 MWh 4h long-term energy storage system equipped with the battery was delivered globally; in December, as the only representative of the energy storage industry, the system was selected into the "14th Five-Year" achievement exhibition of Made-in-China and was recognized at the national level.
In the future, Haichen Energy Storage will further play a leading role in the demonstration of "Lighthouse Factory" in intelligent research and development, intelligent manufacturing and agile and resilient supply chain network, and continuously improve the level of intelligent manufacturing and digitalization of energy storage. At the same time, as the "chain owner" of the industry, it will promote the digital upgrading of the upstream and downstream industrial chain and build an efficient industrial synergy ecology. By continuously exporting replicable intelligent manufacturing experience and industrialization capabilities, we can help long-term energy storage batteries and systems achieve large-scale, high-quality, high-safety and high-efficiency production and application, and contribute to China's green and sustainable development of global energy.
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